Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

Suspicions of Mr Whicher

It is a summer`s night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place in their home. The household reverberates with shock, not least because the guilty party is surely still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, the most celebrated detective of his day, reaches Road Hill House a fortnight later. He faces an unenviable task: to solve a case in which the grieving family are the suspects. The murder provokes national hysteria. The thought of what might be festering behind the closed doors of respectable middle-class homes – scheming servants, rebellious children, insanity, jealousy, loneliness and loathing – arouses fear and a kind of excitement. But when Whicher reaches his shocking conclusion there is uproar and bewilderment.A true story that inspired a generation of writers such as Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle, this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery – a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets. In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life.

Related Products:

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Bloomsbury Modern Classics The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer Silence of the Grave Max the Detective Cat: The Phantom Portrait The Borrowed A Case in Any Case: Detective Gordon Death Descends on Saturn Villa High-Rise Mystery The Summer House Party Death in the Spotlight: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Vanishing of Billy Buckle: The Detective Agency`s Third Case Once Upon a Crime A Cold Death in Amsterdam Top Marks For Murder Cluedo Grab and Go The Language Of Secrets: A Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty Mystery (Book 2) Jack the Ripper: Case Closed Summertime Death The Poisoned Chocolates Case The Case of the Missing Treasure: A Murder Most Unladylike Mini Mystery A Spoonful Of Murder The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime Modus: Fear Not The Lake House Fear Not Cream Buns and Crime: A Murder Most Unladylike Collection Detective Nosegoode and the Kidnappers Out of Thin Air: A True Story Of Impossible Murder In Iceland Voices The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories The Perfect Murder – The First Inspector Ghote Murder Finn Family Moomintroll: Special Collectors` Edition The Secret Keeper The Case of the Man who Died Laughing Max the Detective Cat: The Disappearing Diva The Sherlock Holmes Book The Cheltenham Square Murder Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes A Murder of Quality A Traitor in the Family